Covering Their Tracks is the extraordinary story of a young man’s escape from a moving train bound for the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, and his fight to hold the French national rail company, the SNCF, accountable for thei

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Please Vote for The Franchise!

Oct 3rd, 2023 47s

The Franchise has been nominated for the best sports documentary series in Signal Awards’s Listener's Choice competition! And we need your vote. Voting closes THIS THURSDAY October 5: Now is the time to show your love for this series, Jews in s

The Postgame Show

Dec 14th, 2022 11m 17s

Over the course of this series, host Meredith Shiner has explored how Jewish culture, American culture, and sports culture intersect. She's talked to journalists, athletes, amateur and professional sports nerds, and fans who have spent as much

Sports, Identity, and Justice

Dec 7th, 2022 54m 26s

On this series, we’ve explored sports as a tool for American Jews to assimilate into their broader communities, to establish and pass down family traditions, and even how sports can be a love language for us. But what if sports is quite litera

The Sports Mitzvah

Nov 30th, 2022 47m 10s

Jews don’t have to go pro in sports to love them, and nothing demonstrates that amateur love more than dedicating a whole lifecycle event to it. On this episode, we’re diving into the sports-themed bar mitzvah—and, of course, the coveted shouto

Shondas and Stereotypes: Jewish Sports Team Owners

Nov 16th, 2022 48m 30s

This series has so far focused on the bright spots, the moments that Jewish athletes and storylines have made us proud. But not all stories about Jews in sports are the ones we want splashed in the headlines. On this episode, we confront an unc

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The Halftime Show

Nov 9th, 2022 20m 55s

We’re halfway through our series, so on this bonus mini episode we’re heading to the locker room for halftime. First, a look at the surprisingly Jewish story behind the iconic sound of the 1990s New York Knicks with Pam Harris, the former Madis

Jewish Sports Nerds and their Path to the Promised Land

Nov 2nd, 2022 37m 1s

While many Jewish kids dream of growing up to become iconic Jewish athletes like Dolph Schayes or Sandy Koufax, the numbers aren’t exactly on our side. This episode is about all the ways Jews have found careers in the game without playing the g

40 Years in the Desert: Jews and the New York Mets

Oct 26th, 2022 43m 20s

If baseball is the most Jewish of sports, then there is nothing more Jewish than the New York Mets. There are scores of Jewish Mets fans, and Citi Field even has kosher concession stands. But it goes deeper than that: the Mets are the most meta

Reevaluating ‘Jewish Jordan’ Tamir Goodman

Oct 19th, 2022 46m 46s

In the 1990s, basketball dominated popular culture. There were the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls, the 1992 Olympic Dream Team, and the movie Space Jam—and the face of all of it was Michael Jordan. Everyone wanted to be like Mike, even the

Genesis: Sandy Koufax as Model Minority

Oct 12th, 2022 31m 16s

Sandy Koufax is a Jewish hero less for his Hall of Fame talent on the mound than for the one day he stayed off it: Yom Kippur, 1965. His decision to sit out Game 1 of the World Series, in his prime and with America’s eyes on him, is a Genesis m

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Introducing - The Franchise: Jews, Sports and America

Oct 4th, 2022 3m 55s

The Franchise is a new, eight-part series exploring how contemporary American Jewish culture imprinted itself onto sports and how sports imprinted itself onto Jewish traditions. Hosted by Meredith Shiner and produced by the team behind Unorthod

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